This paper discusses Pacific Rim as a film deeply concerned with birth, in particular the horror of birth, and the process by which birth is assimilated. The film may then be seen as part of an unbroken commentary on nuclear
weapons insofar as it is our technological, capitalistic, and nuclear capability that allows
us to close the “breach” and, figuratively stop birth. Rather than fear of the nuke, what
we see here is an excessive assimilation of technology and nuclear capability so that,
following the logic of the film, birth is denied and maturity is all that remains. Technology
provides us with an ontological “fixed point” to such a degree that we lose sight of how
we have had to empty ourselves of all substance on our way to transcendence and
certainty in an age of convergence.